3 years since October 7, Israel is more necessary than ever
The pro-Hamas protests on the anniversary of October 7 prove why Jews still need a safe haven.
The pro-Hamas protests on the anniversary of October 7 prove why Jews still need a safe haven.


It is obvious that a Palestinian Arab state will be a terrorist state aligned with Iran and would be antithetical to all western interests. But more than that, the region was alloted to Israel by international law. Op-ed

There is a real problem here. It should not be denied or minimised by either side. Opinion.

The Flydubai event proved that ideological threat may seek access not from outside the security perimeter, but from within trusted institutions. This reality must be prepared for. Opinion.
Why on earth are we still allowing journalists from blatantly hostile, antisemitic networks to operate inside our borders? Opinion.

America has made the same dangerous mistake about Iran for nearly 50 years. Only Marco Rubio seems to get it. Opinion.

Dr. Izhak Lax urges European Jews to make aliyah amid rising antisemitism and calls on Israel to prepare for their absorption. Opinion.

A settler boy from Bethlehem, armed with a slingshot, has the media up in arms.

The West is so infiltrated by radical Muslims and terrorists that it cannot trust law enforcement - and it is Israel that saves the day. Opinion.

Israelis must realize they are a nation under siege. While they are bitterly divided over who should lead, the enemy primes its weapons and waits. Opinion.

The erasure of Jews and treating them as villains cannot be ignored. The post-Oct. 7 surge of antisemitism is not a misunderstanding that will fade whether Netanyahu wins the election or not. Opinion.

The world responds: The plane was trying to exercise its ancient rights of self-determination by creating facts on the ground. Satire.

"Graveyard for children" versus "paper sultan". Opinion.

Western policy makers’ infatuation with the proposed Palestinian Arab state has been driven by Western preoccupation with the moderate Palestinian Arab talk, which is aimed at Western target audiences. Middle East Arab rulers are not impressed. Opinion.

At 102, Walter Bingham danced with a child nearly a century younger during Simchat Torah in Jerusalem, recalling a childhood when Nazi persecution forced Jewish celebrations underground.

Tehran’s maritime squeeze, Washington’s midterm political clock, and the rejection of Iran’s ceasefire offer have pushed the Strait of Hormuz to the brink. Navigating this standoff requires clear-eyed analysis of real operational limits, Arab diplomatic realities, and exact intelligence options. Opinion.

The willingness, nay, the insistence on taking responsibility for oneself and for the Jewish People is the epitome of the Zionist dream. Opinion.

The rabid Jew-hater actually mixed up the words, “Muselmann" and "Muslim". Can she be the UN’s least literate antisemite? Opinion.

An averted catastrophe in the air shows how the Jewish state chooses life, while Britain and the West are embracing a culture of death.

Any policy proposal for Gaza that does not entail large-scale population removal is merely a variant of previously tried and failed formulas of autonomy and/or Oslo. Opinion.

The story of the flydubai attack is the story of our nation. Opinion.

Cable Street at 90: Jewish resistance is ours. It requires nobody’s permission. Cable Street’s allies faced down men seeking to intimidate Jews. Its self-appointed heirs think they can decide which Jews should be permitted to appear. Opinion.

Britain has been here before. Where is it headed now? Opinion.

The public sees only a fraction of how Israeli intelligence prevents disasters in air travel the world over. This time it saw intelligent Israelis save a plane full of people in real time. Opinion.

It's not enough to have rules. Someone has to check that they are enforced. And more. Opinion.

As Jews enter sukkot and look upward through their fragile roofs, we should think about an airplane high above the Middle East and the people aboard who suddenly discovered just how thin the barrier can be between life and death - and acted. Opinion.

Ignorance and denial of reality are prerequisites to working at the UN, at which truth and human rights for Jews are unknown concepts. Opinion.

The Palestinian Arabs are unique pioneers in plane hijackings. Op-ed.

We warned that the expulsion from Gush Katif would get Jews killed. You lectured us about peace and progress. You were wrong. We were right. And Jews paid the bill in blood. Now hear the warning a second time, before it is collected again. Opinion.

And come back with your friends the next time. Just be sure to make hotel reservations in time. Op-ed

The relevant question is not simply whether a Palestinian Arab state can be drawn on a map. It is whether Arab leaders are prepared to regard such a state as the conclusion of the conflict rather than another stage in it. Opinion.

The blessing of being Jewish in this world is to live every stage of life with dignity, meaning, and purpose. Op-ed.

Antisemitism is so hip, so cool. Don’t these people know that they have moved to the side of the devil? Opinion.

Ireland can keep the three points, it must also own the ugliness it brought into the “Beautiful Game."

Every new appointment, training cycle, and base assignment can reveal the direction of Syria’s emerging defense policy. Opinion.

War has always produced critics. But there is a difference between criticizing a war-and asking someone else to carry its consequences while you collect the applause. Op-ed.

Hezbollah is weakened but still controls the narrative.

The “longstanding red line" isn’t killing Jews - it’s Jews living. Op-ed.

The psychological impact of close- quarters urban combat is uniquely devastating. House-to-house fighting is deeply visceral. It involves face-to-face violence, the immediate sight of casualties, and the constant fear of sudden ambush in enclosed spaces. It is avoidable and must be changed. Opinion.

Europe, forever soaked in Jewish blood, boycotts Jewish businesses just as the Nazis did. Op-ed.

In Florence, I found myself seeing the crucifixion in a totally different way. Opinion.

The UN can blacklist companies. It cannot move the Judean hills, widen Israel’s coastal plain or make strategic vulnerability disappear. Opinion.

An artistic interpretation of the annual Jewish Holidays. Part 3 of 3.

The film treats a partial view of the targeting chain as though it were the whole system. It is not. Intelligence and collateral-damage estimates were inputs into operational decisions, not the decisions themselves. Analysis.

Jews and their communal leaders cannot and must not be expected to lend the warmth of our welcome to people who excuse our murderers, reject our right to exist or treat our grief as an obstacle to their cause. Opinion.

As NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani renews accusations against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, we must challenge his use of the word 'genocide' and question his silence on Iran’s human rights abuses. Opinion.

Progressives and wokes created a movement that claims to speak for ordinary people but has become socially and culturally alienated and remote from ordinary people, particularly when those people refuse to adopt the politics assigned to them. Opinion.

The irony is shocking: Bibi was forced to enter the United States almost in secret, while Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian walked around unchallenged (apart from protests by the Iranian diaspora). Opinion.

Arguably the most celebrated Arab photographer of the entire war said that the war could have ended four days after it began, had Hamas accepted then what it ultimately accepted later. So the 'genocide' Ms. Rachel et al are accusing Israel of is pure bogus.

A TV show delivers truths that people don’t know have been so lethally denied. Opinion.

The Iranian people are not synonymous with the regime governing them. Netanyahu contrasted with Pezeshkian. Opinion.

The Taliban's Deobandi Sunnism, the Salafi-jihadist roots of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham and the Houthis' Zaydi Shiism are ideologically different but structurally the same. Opinion.

The credo applied to Israel at war - and only Israel - lays down that Jews can never be innocent.

A movement wrong about the end of the world a dozen times running is not predicting. It is hawking fake salvation from systemic fear the saviors continuously reinvent. Op-ed.

Zack Polanski and British Jewry's “suicidal naivety" that believes one more denunciation will finally be enough. Opinion.

How "Lavender" as an AI-Driven Targeting System became an inevitable appurtenance in the Gaza Conflict. And why. Op-ed.

Theories abound as to why Rubio has virtually vanished from center stage. Opinion.

“Settler violence," was not mentioned until Hamas’ massacre on October 7, 2023. Shortly after that tragedy occurred, journalists, including Israelis, began to promote the canard. Opinion.

Israel is talking about more submarines, blinding itself to two asymmetrical force multipliers that could systematically dismantle a superior surface adversary such as Turkey.

Macron’s false statement about Hamas is grotesque, but the real story is the lethal "palestine" fairytale dreamed up by the KGB and now believed the world over. Op-ed.
